Did your Traditional knife get a workout today? -Part II

When I asked who wanted to cut fruit, this knife jumped up and said, "I'll be your Huckleberry!"

 
Blake the Blade said:
Yeah really should keep abreast of what's going on Jack, The result of a long absence I'm afraid. Did have a discussion with Knarfeng regarding forum etiquette on such matters, who seemed unbothered by the whole thing and happy to let it run in the interest of refreshing the idea. But yeah, in modern-day parlance, which I hate...."my bad".
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Me too! :D

Unfortunately, when someone mirrors a long-existing and still very active thread by posting a duplicate, it can have the effect of undermining the prior thread, and it can die off. While I doubt that will happen here, it also adds confusion for other newer posters, who perhaps aren't familiar with the existing thread, and means that a duplicate thread comes up if anyone searches on the subject. More searches, less clutter! :thumbup:
 
Jack Black said:
Me too! :D

Unfortunately, when someone mirrors a long-existing and still very active thread by posting a duplicate, it can have the effect of undermining the prior thread, and it can die off. While I doubt that will happen here, it also adds confusion for other newer posters, who perhaps aren't familiar with the existing thread, and means that a duplicate thread comes up if anyone searches on the subject. More searches, less clutter! :thumbup:
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You're right Jack, I realise that. Looks like I should take one on the chin with this one, though it does seem as though natural selection is doing a pretty good job of sending it into oblivion anyway. It's only us talking about it that's keeping it going. Fact is I'm not sure how to get rid of it. I'll work it out. No hard feeling intended or taken. :02.47-tranquillity:
 
I think the reason it wasn't merged is "Traditional Folders In Action:Photos Please" is not quite the same as "Did your Traditional knife get a workout today? -Part II". If I recall correctly Frank made the call and it seems a good one to me. Maybe Frank will chime in later. If the OP wants the thread merged we can do that, although I don't think it has to be.
 
I guess I didn't see a problem with having two similar threads. Or even having one thread supplant the other. There is no BF rule or TF guideline that says that everything on a certain topic has to be in one thread. So I flipped a coin in my head as to whether they should be merged. (note: for those interested, it came up tails.)

At this point there have been new posts in both threads and I'll leave it up to the OP of this thread. If the OP decides he wants the threads merged he can leave a VM for Gary or me. Ditto if he wants this thread closed.
 
Blake the Blade said:
Love it John! What an exciting week you've had. This is just the sort of drama I am interested in. You really should make more of an effort to document this stuff though, for the sake of posterity and all. Enjoy your apples and keep living the dream my friend. :thumbup: :D
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You do understand that I was poking fun more at myself, and not at the thread. I have devolved into an indoorsman, working in a cubicle job with little actual need for a pocket knife other than little mundane tasks.

After living for many years without carrying one, and now having carried at least one (sometimes up to 4) on me every day for about the past 3 years, I do find that those little daily things come up more often than one normally thinks, and I can't exactly recall how inconvenient life must have been before I acquired the affliction.

I do have some semi-action shots from a while back. I used my Case Small Texas Jack to prepare breakfast one morning. It was used for all food prep tasks including spreading the butter on the toast. A task that it is not well-suited for, I might add. All of this done in a kitchen that had other utensils available, but hey, photo op!

It begins:


Jc57: 3. Fruit: 0.


Cheerios and coffee - no knives used in their preparation, though I may have opened the cereal box with the knife, you can never tell:
 
jc57 said:
You do understand that I was poking fun more at myself, and not at the thread. I have devolved into an indoorsman, working in a cubicle job with little actual need for a pocket knife other than little mundane tasks.

After living for many years without carrying one, and now having carried at least one (sometimes up to 4) on me every day for about the past 3 years, I do find that those little daily things come up more often than one normally thinks, and I can't exactly recall how inconvenient life must have been before I acquired the affliction.

I do have some semi-action shots from a while back. I used my Case Small Texas Jack to prepare breakfast one morning. It was used for all food prep tasks including spreading the butter on the toast. A task that it is not well-suited for, I might add. All of this done in a kitchen that had other utensils available, but hey, photo op!

It begins:


Jc57: 3. Fruit: 0.


Cheerios and coffee - no knives used in their preparation, though I may have opened the cereal box with the knife, you can never tell:
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That's great John. You've made me laugh with this this morning mate, the thought of you in your kitchen full of utensils doing everything with your penknife. I think it's a bit like that for all of us in reality. I carry a SAK farmer for work because I like to think it covers me for any eventuality, the reality is if I fancied beans on toast for lunch and missed out on the opportunity to use the tin opener on my knife and had to use a conventional one instead I would not be best pleased. Great photos John, looks nice that. Keep up the good fight. :thumbup:
 
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I can't seem to cut a straight line with a bread knife anymore. So it's the jackknife for bagels these days.
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Maybe we should merge the threads and keep this title. I hope we aren't giving our knives serious workouts with our bagels and bananas.
 
scrteened porch said:
I can't seem to cut a straight line with a bread knife anymore. So it's the jackknife for bagels these days.
93d8wO1s

Maybe we should merge the threads and keep this title. I hope we aren't giving our knives serious workouts with our bagels and bananas.
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Good work mate. Cut a bagel with my peanut yesterday. Worked perfectly. :thumbup:

The merge thing is hopefully in hand. :thumbup::)
 
SAK Pioneer Rancher peeled a pear for lunch. The little hawkbill did a neat job :thumbup:

 
Blake left me a VM asking that his "Traditional knives in Action" thread be merged with this one.
Done.
 
I got my olive-wood sopping wet cutting out a downspout connector that was unclear on the concept.
The knife's withers appear unwrung.
This is a picture of it new. The wood has darkened quite a bit since.
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Been doing a little bonding with a 30+ish year old 303 latlely. My first "Ball in a Cage". It's more "Egg in a Cage".

 
Used my barlow to slice up the shallots and green onions to go in these crab stuffed portabellas for dinner tonight!

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